Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 40% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citadel overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citadel as a Software Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 29%
Background check: 14%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 14%
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Got two questions in the initial coding round. It was a hackerrank coding challenge. Both the questions were of medium difficulty. I was able to pass all the test cases for both the questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Citadel
Interview
I was reached out by a recruiter to interview for a contractor position on a trading team. The question they asked was strange and nothing to do with the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Convert a string to an int without using Java library.
Online assessment with 3 coding questions on bfs and stacks etc.
First round on a simple coding question with some basic CS questions on top of it and also asked many CV questions and motivations
Did not proceed after this round
OA then phone interview, discussed about experience, coding rounds, and some open ended questions afterwards. The last 5 - 10 mins was for interviewee to ask questions back. Didn't pass this round :(